++Totally agree with that approach. Looking forward to looking over the Images 2.0 API :-)
-jOrGe W. On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Mellquist, Peter > <peter.mellqu...@hp.com> wrote: >> The topic of when an API should be defined is also important. Do we define >> an API / WADL 1) up front before the service is implemented, 2) in parallel >> with the impl, 3) or after the impl? I am an advocate of #1 or perhaps #2 >> but not #3 since #3 is just retrofitting an API on existing impl without any >> real API design considerations. > > Wow, +10. We had a rousing discussion about this at the design > summit... I'm in the process of finalizing the proposal for an > OpenStack Images API 2.0 which will be sent to the mailing list > shortly (just got some excellent feedback from Mark Nottingham this > morning on some pieces that I'm going to change, thanks Mark!). We > (the Glance contribs) will ask the community for feedback over a 3-4 > week RFC period. At the same time, we'll begin implementing the > proposal in a separate branch of Glance, providing more feedback to > the mailing list if we run into issues where the implementation of the > proposed API is cumbersome or we recommend changes to the proposal. At > the same time, we'll incorporate feedback as we get it on the mailing > list and try working that feedback into the implementation we'll be > working on. > > Once the community decides to accept some iterated-over proposed 2.0 > API, we'll work with Anne to put the API into > http://github.com/openstack/images-api and teams like the QA team can > get busy writing tests *against the proposed 2.0 API, without worrying > that the API will change three times a day*. > > Cheers! > -jay > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
